Example sentences of "[adv] of [art] [adj] [unc] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SHAREHOLDERS in Pacific Horizon Investment must be congratulating themselves on their decision last August to switch the trust 's investment management from Jupiter Tyndall to Edinburgh 's Baillie Gifford , after news yesterday of a 38.8 per cent leap in net asset value per share at halfway , writes George Duthie . |
| 2 | The latest reduction , agreed after several days of wildcat strikes beginning on April 27 and involving some 250,000 employees , averted the prospect of a national strike in support also of an 8.5 per cent pay rise . |
| 3 | The Turkish-Cypriot zone was allocated 28.2 per cent of the island , instead of the 37 per cent occupied at present . |
| 4 | It means that the 55-60 per cent of the electorate who voted against the Conservatives will get what they voted for , instead of the 40-45 per cent who voted for the Tories , putting them in power for five more unfettered years . |
| 5 | The notification requirement applies at certain threshold levels , namely 10 per cent , 20 per cent , one-third , 50 per cent and two-thirds , although member states are given the option to have different thresholds in certain cases ( for example a 25 per cent threshold instead of the 20 per cent and one-third thresholds ) . |
| 6 | If you are already engaged in running a small business , you will probably hardly need reminding that the small companies ' rate of corporation tax is 25 per cent ( instead of the 33 per cent standard rate for larger concerns ) . |
| 7 | Thus ruisseler ( to flow ) becomes il ruissèle in the third person singular instead of the prettier il ruisselle . |